JUMP IN THE LINE Crooner and humanitarian/activist Harry Belafonte, with wife Pamela Frank, in town to receive the Desmond Tutu Social Justice Award from the nonprofit South Africa Partners on October 13.

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PUTTING ON THE RITZ: Cerise Lim Jacobs, librettist for the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Madame White Snake, flanked by Gloria Lieberman and Sheryl Marshall at “Tribute! A Celebrity Series Gala” at the Ritz-Carlton, Boston Common on October 13.

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READY. SET. COOK! Sixth-grader Mai Nguyen selects vegetables during a festival for CitySprouts, an organization devoted to creating gardens at schools, at Cambridge’s Kennedy-Longfellow School on October 14.

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ES IST GUT: Goethe-Institut Boston director Detlef Gericke-Schonhagen, French cultural attache Anne Miller, and producer/director Guy ben-Aharon at the German Stage production of Voltaire & Frederick: A Life in Letters on October 15.

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ON POINT: Event cochairs Rodney Rafteryand Ceceilia Allwein with Jorge Valencia, executive director of Point Foundation, the nation’s largest scholarship-granting organization for LGBTQ students, during a fund-raiser at the Mandarin Oriental, Boston on October 18.